Rashida Jones played Karen Scarfoli, a girl with a bad attitude who tries to steal Kim Kelly's (Busy Phillips) boyfriend Daniel (James Franco) and writes "PYGMY GEEK" on poor Sam Weir's (John Francis Daley) locker with lipstick. I think if Pam had a locker on The Office, Rashida Jones might have done the same when she later portrayed Karen, a girl who tries to steal Jim Halpert's heart, on Season 3.

In "Carded & Discarded," Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini) and the freaks seek out someone to sell them fake IDs so they can see a band perform at a bar. That conniving "salesman" named Howie Gelfand is played by Jason Schwartzman, who also happens to work at a disco-style clothing store where they sketchily have to approach him at to make the business deal. After hitting on Lindsay, he ends up getting them really crappy fakes, including IDs of Asian guys for Daniel and Nick (Jason Segel). The only one who ends up paying for his is Ken (Seth Rogen), claiming to look not that off from a mustached guy named Jesus H. Garcia. "It's 'HEY-ZEUS.'"

In the same episode, Kevin Corrigan (Superbad, Grounded for Life) appears as yet another shady, potentially violent relative -- this time as goody-two-shoes Millie's (Sarah Hagan) delinquent cousin Toby, who the freaks end up buying fake IDs from.

Pre-Even Stevens, a scrawny Shia LaBeouf played the role of Herbert, a prepubescent freshman who used to be the school mascot (a job requiring a massive Norseman head worn as part of the costume) until he fell and got a concussion and broken arm when the cafeteria table collapsed (he was jumping up and down on it like a midget bobble head). When Sam replaces him as the school mascot to impress his crush Cindy Sanders (Natasha Melnick), Herbert gives him advice on how to climb the pyramid of cheerleaders and not break his neck. Skills we're sure he found useful during the filming of Transformers.

Before he was killing his mother's nemesis with a croquet mallet on Weeds, Alexander Gould played the role of Ronnie, the little boy who Lindsay Weir is supposed to babysit after she tries smoking pot for the first time in the episode "Chokin' & Tokin.'" While Lindsay is too high to play with him, he freaks her out after running into the room where she's reading the encyclopedia entry for "marijuana" and tagging her it. I'd say "isn't it ironic?" about his later role as Shane Botwin, but I wouldn't want to piss off his fellow Weeds castmate Alanis Morissette.

Some people know him from Numb3rs, but we also know him as Bernard the Elf from The Santa Clause. David Krumholtz plays Neil Schweiber's (Samm Levine) cooler, older brother Barry who's home from college and ends up making out with Lindsay, much to Neil's dismay.

In an episode featuring the preparation of Vice President George Bush visiting McKinley High, Ben Stiller plays the role of kind-of-a-prick Secret Service Agent Meara, who tells enthusiastic guidance counselor and former Vietnam War protester Mr. Rosso (hippie-haired Dave "Gruber" Allen) that he's not allowed in the cafeteria during Bush's visit. After finding out Rosso's a guidance counselor, he then begins to vent his feelings of the struggles of a Secret Service Agent and how he wishes he "could just rip off his vest and jacket and just put on a t-shirt and go and make pancakes somewhere or something."

Samaire Armstrong (Dirty Sexy Money, The O.C.) played a role that almost seemed made for the far-out-there (and probably drug-wielding) lady: Deadhead Laurie. When she sees Lindsay with a Grateful Dead record (given to her by Mr. Rosso to listen to) she raves about her intense admiration for their songs in her peace-and-love hippie banter. She even persuades Lindsay to join her and her friend as they follow the band during their summer tour (in a very decorated VW minibus, nonetheless).

Playing a girl who would be an embarrassment to her characters on Party Down and Mean Girls, Lizzy Caplan shortly appears in a few episodes and has a larger role in the last episode as disco-loving girlfriend to Nick. And the disco competition she signs Nick up for seems like a bizarre enough event where Casey Klein and the Party Down crew would begrudgingly be catering at.

Is there still a place on TV for smart, snarky teens? See the Darias of today.

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